Defining a Literature

Autor/in	Kennedy, Mary M.
Titel	Defining a Literature
Quelle	In: Educational Researcher, 36 (2007) 3, S.139-147 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-189X
DOI	10.3102/0013189X07299197
Schlagwörter	Literature Reviews; Teacher Effectiveness; Inclusive Schools; Academic Achievement; Teacher Qualifications; Meta Analysis; Synthesis; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Inclusive school; Integrative Schule; Schulleistung; Lehrqualifikation; Meta-analysis; Metaanalyse; USA
Abstract	As scholars and their audiences pursue standards of evidence, standards for literature reviews have also become salient. Many authors advocate "systematic" reviews and articulate standards for these. This article compares the bodies of literature derived from systematic and other types of review, which the author labels conceptual, and examines problems associated with different approaches to defining a body of literature. These problems include (a) defining the boundaries of the literature, (b) distinguishing studies from citations, (c) distinguishing literature from lore, (d) deciding which reporting venues to include, and (e) weeding out anomalous studies. The article demonstrates that although systematic reviews may remove some biases through their inclusion rules, they may introduce other biases through their exclusion decisions and may thwart conceptual advances in a field. (Contains 4 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10